Beautiful work, Ley!
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Hi!Thanks for the comment and no need to apologize! I think this is a good place for having these kinds of conversations.
According to most recent research, there are actually multiple kinds of love! The kind of love Deer is experiencing is different from the type of love you are describing. Deer's type involves dopamine and norepinephrine and is characterized by reduced activity in the brain areas involved in critical thinking. The second type of love involves oxytocin and vasopressin and has no impact on critical thinking abilities.
In this story I wanted to talk about what's it like to experience the dopamine-fueled version of love for the first time: trying to navigate a complicated new situation while your brain is effectively being drugged.
Thank you so much!
Bear Care is a work of fiction, but the emotions within it are very much based on my own early experiences with queer dating.
People kept asking me for a sequel to Yoga Bear. I told them I didn't
want to write one. It's a fairy tale, I thought. You're not supposed to find out what happens after the lovers ride off to the sunset together.
But then I thought about it some more. What if it wasn't a fairy tale?
The truth is that I haven't read very many MLM stories that resonate with me on a personal level. Most of them either straight up ignore or eagerly embrace the gay hookup culture, and while there's absolutely nothing wrong with either approach, they are not something I can relate to.
So I decided to write something I could relate to. I wrote Bear Care.